As Turkey's prime minister lashed out at protesters, leaders of Istanbul's bid for the 2020 Summer Games sought to diminish the impact of the unrest in a presentation Saturday to a key audience of ...

As soon as the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, reluctantly handed the Olympic flag over to Jacques Rogge, president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), at the closing ceremony of the London ...

ISTANBUL — The spate of doping cases in Turkey should help — rather than harm — Istanbul's bid for the 2020 Olympics, the head of the country's national Olympic ...

Istanbul was a candidate to host the 2020 Summer Games but lost out to Tokyo in the election in September 2013. Istanbul was a candidate to host the 2020 Summer Games but lost out to Tokyo in the ...

Istanbul is ready to bid for the 2020 Olympics, Turkey's sports minister said Wednesday. Suat Kilic told CNN-Turk television that Turkey was set to meet all the requirements for hosting the games.

Chairman of the Romanian Wrestling Federation (FRL) Razvan Pircalabu told AGERPRES on Wednesday that the Wrestling World Qualification Tournament scheduled for May 9-12 in Istanbul, Turkey, is the ...